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I attended IgniteNYC to try to understand the state of tech in NYC. What I found out instead was the state of art in NYC. Not the state of the art, but how artists are using technology for their projects. Many of the people here were discussing how their art interacted with technology. It’s 2009 and it seems that the use of Web 2.0 technology and data visualization techniques has become de rigeur for artists.
The use of imagery on the Internet, the manipulation and remixes inherent in such a febrile Web culture as well as the the art inherent in data itself were common threads through many of the discussions. We are talking about an obsession and DIY attitude with data, both its creation and reuse, as the very definition of what I call nerdism. As a long-standing member of the nerd class (i.e. you are reading the writings of a high school Computer Club president), it’s very satisfying to watch nerdism become the default intellectual stance for artists and hipsters. I predict that over time that successful nonprofits will also adopt nerdism as an intellectual stance too. Ultimately, we will have hip and cool nonprofits obsessing over their beautiful data visualizations and discussing their work in venues at IgniteNYC. Of course, it hasn’t happened yet but the day will come when some nonprofit 2.0 ED will present on the stage at an IgniteNYC and just royally geeks out over their cool heatmap overlay over metropolitan New York.
To find more links and other information about #ignitenyc, check out my live tweets during the event and everyone else who tweeted about it..
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